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= Chuck Darrah = Charles A. Darrah (or Chuck) is a emeritus professor of San Jose State University and an applied anthropologist who has done research on manufacturing and the service industry within Silicon Valley. Previously he was the chair of the Anthropology Department and a lecturer who supported students by understanding the value of their skills. He has authored and co-authored several books on the working lives of Americans and skills that can be applied to other types of work.

The body of his academic work is focused on groups that work in manufacturing and services industry where he studies the organizational structures to understand how they react to the effects caused by the development of contemporary culture either in the organization or outside of it. The anthropological methods used by Chuck over the course of his professional career came in a applied form as he used ethnographic methods to analyze organizations.

Academics
Chuck Darrah studied in San Jose State University in where he completed his bachelors in Anthropology and Masters in Health Education. Later in his academic career he attended Stanford to finish his Doctorate in Anthropology of Education. Before that, he has done previous work as a lecturer at a community college after his graduation as well as conducting field research on manufacturing jobs in Silicon Valley.

Books
He began authoring books in the 90's where the majority of his work focused on the lives of people who worked in industrial settings and establishes research methods to study this phenomenon and its effects of workers.

Career/Projects
His anthropological research is focused on the study of organizational structures within manufacturing and has written extensively about service field. Alongside that he has also started several programs during his time he San Jose State University with prominent ones being Human Aspirations and Design Laboratory and Silicon Valley Cultures Project.